The Election Tribunal sitting in Kano has struck out a fresh application by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate, Abba Kabiru Yusuf, seeking to extend inspection of election materials. Counsel to Abba, Bashir Yusuf Mohammed, had filed the application in ...
Read More »Boko Haram fighters receive over N1m daily, Nigerian soldiers get N1000, says PCNI
A member of the Presidential Committee on North East Initiative (PCNI), Dr. Sidi Ali Mohammed has disclosed that Boko Haram fighters receive $3000 (an equivalent of N1, 080,000 daily) as allowance, while Nigerian soldiers get a paltry N1000. He spoke ...
Read More »Igbo strategise to capture Nigeria’s presidency in 2023
The quest to realise the president of Igbo extraction for the country in 2023 may have started in earnest as sons and daughters of the ethnic group gather today in Enugu to inaugurate a pressure group, “Southeast for President 2023 ...
Read More »PDP, INEC disagree over alleged replacement of polls’ servers
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of replacing servers in its headquarters and state offices across the country. Its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan claimed that the replacement “is a desperate bid to ...
Read More »Senate orders minister, agency to return N14.3 billion to nation’s treasury
The Senate has ordered the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah, and Acting Managing Director of the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA), Terhemba Nongo, to return N14.3 billion of the agency’s 2017 budget votes to the treasury. ...
Read More »Why court ordered NDDC headquarters sealed-off over N50b tax default
We have settled our outstanding obligations, commission insists The Rivers State f Internal Revenue Service (RIRS) said it obtained a court order to seal-off the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) headquarters in Port Harcourt over N50 billion unremitted taxes. Chairman ...
Read More »Elumelu seeks double taxation treaties with embassies
Chairman of United Bank of Africa (UBA) Tony Elumelu has canvassed the need for government to expand its double taxation treaties with foreign missions and embassies, among others to increase its revenue base. He said Nigeria has only 14 double ...
Read More »Youths demand permanent solution to Tiv/Jukun crisis
Leadership of the Tiv Youth Council (TYC) has called for decisive actions towards restoration of permanent peace between the warring ethnic groups in Benue and Taraba states. The group, in a statement yesterday signed by its president, Mike Msuaan, also ...
Read More »Why Nigeria’s electoral politics is not gender-sensitive, by stakeholders
Stakeholders have said that one of the growing concerns about democracy is the exclusion of women and other disadvantaged groups from structures of representation and decision-making. The stakeholders, who spoke at a roundtable on “Enhancing Women’s Active Participation in Politics” ...
Read More »South East should be allowed to produce next Reps Speaker, says Chukwukere
Representative of Ideato South/North Federal constituency in Imo State, Austin Chukwukere, has said equity and fairness demand that the South East should produce the next Speaker of the House of Representatives. He told Thenewexperience-newspaper in Owerri that the All Progressives ...
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